Faces from colonial times: the collection of facial casts at the Sapienza University of Rome (Museum of Anthropology "G. Sergi")).

Founded in 1894, the Museum "G. Sergi" houses a variety of osteological materials and other collections, including several plaster facial casts from different human populations. This paper investigates this collection, which has been acquired (at least in part) in the framework of Italian colonialism, focusing on expeditions respectively led by Lidio Cipriani and Corrado Gini during the fascist regime.

New perineal tensive transobturator tape (T-TOT) for postprostatectomy urinary incontinence.

Unlabelled: Bulbourethral transobturator sling data from other investigators report a success rate from 53% to 85%. Since the degree of sling tension and its adjustment seems to be important for achieving complete urinary continence we present results on the first consecutive 12 patients, with mild post prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence--defined as--less than 500 ml, who underwent a new perineal tensive transobturator polypropylene tape (T-TOT) procedure at our institution.

Results: Pre-operative mean abdominal leak point pressure (ALPP) was 23 cm H2O (sd +/- 10), retrograde leak point pressure (RLPP) was 24 cm H2O (sd +/- 6) and the mean pad test was 324 g (sd +/- 176).

[Andrologic surgery].

The need of an economic and social low costs drive more and more surgeons towards the day surgery. The always growing diffusion of local anesthetic supports this trend. The drugs used as local anaesthetics are: carbocaine, procaine, lidocaine and bipivacaine.